I got into it once with a former acquaintance, a Canadian “moderate” blogger (that means “liberal”) whose winning smile and considerable personal charm endeared him to many of my fellow “conservatives.”

Being temperamentally immune to the charms of “charm,” I was slightly less smitten.

During one online exchange, he mocked George W. Bush’s baldfaced admission that he didn’t read the New York Times.

“Surely you know,” I responded, “that the President of the United States receives a morning briefing package that contains information the New York Times can only dream of getting its hands on?”

hhMMM... That's something new to me, that the President of the United States only knows what he knows because he read the news stories his administration planted in the news media.

No one in the Obama administration talks to the President? and the President doesn't give instructions to any of his staff?

But wait, wasn't the news about Libya all about the Presidential Advisers advising the President that he had a 'responsibility to protect' and that the US had to intervene in Libya to keep the peace? and those same advisers are advising something different for Syria because...

Ok, no, wait... the Presidents advisers are so incompetent that the President only knows what he knows because he reads the Sunday Papers?

No, that can't be right, So that's why Susan Rice (who's advice has been so useful for so long) is now going to be the National Security Adviser because. .